The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes By Sax Rohmer - Volume 1

The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes by Sax Rohmer is a collection of detective stories reworked into Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson tales. This is Volume 1, compiled by Alan Lance Anderson.

Key details

• Volume 1
• Compiled by Alan Lance Anderson
• Stories by Sax Rohmer from the 1920s
• 160 pages
• ISBN 9781787050006
• Royalties from the books to Happy Life Children's Home

Synopsis

During the late Victorian and Edwardian period, detective fiction flourished, with Arthur Conan Doyle producing Sherlock Holmes stories on a regular basis. While many modern writers have tried to create “new” Holmes adventures, the source notes that these often miss the original flavour, as contemporary voices do not naturally match Victorian speech and thinking.

This volume draws on stories Sax Rohmer wrote in the 1920s, originally featuring a Holmes-and-Watson-like detective and narrator, and reworks them so they read as Holmes and Watson cases. It is presented as Sax Rohmer’s version of Sherlock Holmes, made possible because both Rohmer’s stories and the Conan Doyle canon are in the public domain.

Rackhams Reference : XS98B4SK31